Since all of our projects have (or should have) Makefiles which use dep to fetch dependencies, using go get is really just a lazy way to clone the repository that also clones all the dependencies thereby polluting the GOPATH. We should replace instances of go get in our docs with git clone <project>.git $GOPATH/src/github.com/pilosa/<project>
Note: Even when using the -d option to stop from installing, dependencies are still cloned. I could not find an option that just clones the project repository.
alanbernstein
commented
6 years ago
Since all of our projects have (or should have) Makefiles which use
depto fetch dependencies, usinggo getis really just a lazy way to clone the repository that also clones all the dependencies thereby polluting the GOPATH. We should replace instances ofgo getin our docs withgit clone <project>.git $GOPATH/src/github.com/pilosa/<project>Note: Even when using the
-doption to stop from installing, dependencies are still cloned. I could not find an option that just clones the project repository.